Zina's Paradox : The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820448834
ISBN-13
9780820448831
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 22nd, 2000
Print length
215 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Classical textsLiterary studies: general
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One of the century’s greatest Russian novels, Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift still continues to baffle new readers with its playfully unstable narration, its temporal shifts, and its huge inserted opus, The Life of Chernyshevski. This study, the first monograph on Nabokov’s last Russian novel, explores the connections between the narrative’s structural difficulties and its most pressing thematic concerns: love and self-transcendence. In a departure from traditional approaches to The Gift, Blackwell places Zina’s role as a loving, collaborating audience at the very center of the novel’s significance. This non-heroine, according to Nabokov, turns out to constitute a vital part of the narrative perspective, a fact with significant repercussions for the novel’s consideration of art’s meaning within human existence and beyond.
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